http://hdl.handle.net/10071/428 2026-04-25T13:07:42Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 Título próprio: Speculating Kinaxixe Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction can retrace or denounce this ghostly matter. Yet they fall short of addressing its expression – the force it harbours, the form it takes, the effects it conjures. When the overlapping temporalities composing a place are arranged in a linear sequence, what is gained in historical clarity is lost in speculative insight. What that means when it comes to write (a) place is the question that kept haunting me as I negotiated, under the scorching sun, the elongated roundabout of Largo do Kinaxixi, looking for a merciful shade and some kind of entry point to access the multiple layers composing this most intricate of Luanda’s sites. Today, the square has a sleek attire. After renewal works, it reopened for the 49th anniversary of Angola’s independence, November 11, 2024. It has new patches of grass, benches, surveillance cameras, streetlights, public restrooms, an amphitheatre and a luminous fountain. All this makes up for the eerie emptiness that had been left by the demolition of a famous market, almost twenty years before. At the centre of the square, a little puddle evokes the original meaning of Kinaxixi [from kina – pit, hole; and xixi – spring water], if we are to follow Luandino Vieira’s etymological proposition. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37013 Título próprio: When terroir lost the plot. On re-grounding wine Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Terroir lost the plot when its speculative, relational potential has been frozen into a "dispositif" that reduces soil to inert substrate, land to a legally coded space of exception, and place to a socio-cultural fetish tied to identity, hierarchy and nationalist localism. In the context of planetary urban-rural transformations and soil crisis, this paper reframes terroir as an emergent "agencement" of soil, land and place, whose multispecies aliveness exceeds both protectionist appellation regimes and the «democratic», market-led critique that claims to liberate wine from tradition. Focusing on Natural Wine as a heterogeneous but movement-like field, the paper argues that its minimal-intervention ethos articulates an "anarchic critique" of terroir through three operations: reanimating soils, unarchiving land and trans-localising place. Natural Wine protocols, practices and participatory forms of verification thus decouple terroir from static origin, repositioning it as a grounded, more-than-human normativity and a site for alternative political-ecological value. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36971 Título próprio: The Euro Area sovereign debt crisis: 2010 to 2012 and beyond Autoria: Leão, P. R.; Bhimjee, D. C. P.; Leão, E. R. Resumo: This article carries out a detailed study of the Euro Area sovereign debt crisis since its inception in late 2009 until its most acute phase in the first semester of 2012. First the origin in Greece, Portugal, and Ireland is pinpointed, followed by a description of the contagion to Spain and Italy. The specific focus of the article is on the underlying macroeconomic imbalances and structural economic weaknesses that made these countries vulnerable. The paper highlights both the common and the country-specific features of the development of the crisis. Also, it examines the responses to the crisis implemented both by individual governments and at the European level by the European Central Bank and the European Commission/European Council. The Euro Area sovereign debt crisis constitutes a historic event of great relevance to fiscal policy and the associated public debt sustainability. The public finances of Greece and Portugal became vulnerable when their export dependent economies were hit by the global economic downturn of 2008–2009. In Ireland and Spain, the source of the public finance troubles were the construction and housing crashes which occurred in these two countries. Finally, in Italy the troubles originated in the initially high public debt burden, a pre-existing problem which worsened and became unsustainable in the context of the global economic downturn and already installed sovereign debt crisis. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36735 Título próprio: Sustainable value creation in nonprofit organizations: Processes, determinants, and strategic dimensions Autoria: Fonseca, A.; Morioka, S.; Cardoso, J. C.; Barbosa, A. de S.; Rocha, J.; Silvestre, W. J. Resumo: Implementing sustainability-oriented strategies within the nonprofit sector is often framed through corporate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) frameworks, yet the unique institutional logic of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) demands a more nuanced conceptualization. This study investigates the processes and determinants of sustainable value creation in NPOs, adopting an integrated theoretical framework that dynamically combines Stakeholder Theory, the Resource-Based View, and Institutional Theory. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines a thematic synthesis of 60 high-impact papers with confirmatory guided interviews with representatives from eight diverse NPOs. Five core categories of sustainable value creation processes were identified: strategic management, operational management, financial resources management, human capital development, and systemic integration of sustainability. Furthermore, the study identifies 25 determinants formally classified into micro (individual agency), meso (organizational structure), and macro (institutional environment) levels. The findings demonstrate tensions between internal leadership agency and external structural constraints, highlighting the challenges associated with the lack of tailored sustainability tools. It is argued that sustainability in NPOs is a fluid, emergent process defined by mission-driven legitimacy rather than financial materiality. This research provides a diagnostic foundation for assessing ESG readiness and emphasizes the need for reflexive, context-sensitive management tools that align sustainability with the unique nonprofit ethos. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z